Chapter 1

First, the technology-based office is great of teachers for the reason that it will make keeping their work and their students work organized. Instead of having to deal piles of paper all the papers are on the computer in files. It make accessing the work so much easier. All of the assignments that you give can be on your computer so just incase you lose the hard copy you can go on the computer and print out another one. And if you have a laptop you can carry your work anywhere you go. Having the ability to do your work where ever you want.

Second, I found reading about digital identity interesting because it is an important concept for teachers. Now a days everyone is on social media and they can view everything you have ever posted. So if you are trying to become a teacher or are one you have to make sure you have a good digital identity because student, teachers, and parent are seeing what you put online. Teachers have to watch themselves because now a days ever kid in class has a phone and can record you doing or saying something inappropriate. As a college athlete I have had coach tell us to watch what we post on social media because there people just waiting for us to mess up. I have seen to two athletes get kick out of school what they posted on social media.

















Third, I enjoyed reading about technology pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK) because it is something that up and come teachers should know. Teachers should learn about the three different forms of knowledge. The teacher should have good knowledge over the subject matter that the are teaching. It is important that teacher has the ability to teach that content using technology to keep student interested. Teaching the content in new and different keeps the material interesting for the student. You have to find different ways of teach material because must student learn in different kinds of ways. This way you can also find strengths and weakness in the way that they learn. You need to balance the three learnings into your teaching as show in the article TPACK Explained.

Conclusion, technology can make a teachers life much easier and more organize but it can also make it more difficult since they have to be careful of what goes on the internet. Also technology can effect the ways to teach content since there are many ways of doing so.

Resources

Maloy, R., O'Loughlin, R., Edwards, S., & Woolf, B. (2013). Transforming Learning with New Technologies. 2nd Edition. Boston, MA: Pearson Education Inc. 

Teaching & Learning Innovations CSUCI (2015, June 25). What is a digital identity? Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJzuDcyR0WM 

Koehler, M. (2006). TPACK explained. Retrieved January 16, 2017, from http://www.matt-koehler.com/tpack/tpack-explained/